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Center for Economic Education

 

The MSU Center aims to develop in K-12 young people the economic knowledge and decision making skills they will need throughout their lives as family members, workers, citizens and business, labor, government and community leaders. The MSU Center employs multiple strategies in pursuit of its mission—

  • support economic and entrepreneurial education training to teachers who in turn will teach students;
  • produce and distribute teaching materials for use by teachers in K-12 classrooms throughout the curriculum;
  • maintain an affiliation with the National Council on Economic Education and the Kentucky Council on Economic Education to draw upon their strength in national and state programming, curriculum materials, basic research and public awareness of the need for economic education;
  • involve local business and community organizations in implementing economic education into the service-area schools.
 

Summer O' Econ Workshop Series (2013):

 

Workshop # 1: Virtual Economics 4.0

 

 

Date: July 29 (Monday)

 

Time: 12-3 pm (lunch will be provided)

 

Location: Murray State campus (Business Building, Room 201)

 

Benefits:

- Each attending teacher will get the VE 4.0 Curriculum for FREE ($109.95 value)

- The first 25 registered teachers will get a FREE MSU merchandise giveaway

- Certificate for 3 hours of PD

 

Register: Email msu.econed@murraystate.edu OR go online at www.econ.org

Discover an all-in-one CD-ROM—Virtual Economics—your one-stop resource to print-based, web-based and multimedia resources. Version 4 contains over 1,400 activity-based lessons from more than 75 publications, 51 key economic concepts, and a glossary with over 500 terms. This is a resource every economics teacher should have. Plus, these boredom-proof resources give your students an active learning approach with interactive simulations, role playing activities and multimedia clips.

*This workshop and the accompanying materials are made available to teachers through the generous support of State Farm and the Council for Economic Education.

 

 

 

Workshop # 2: The Stock Market Game

 

 

 

Date: July 30 (Tuesday)

 

Time: 12-3 pm (lunch will be provided)

 

Location: Murray State campus (Business Building, Room 201)

 

Benefits:

- Each attending teacher will get 3 FREE teams for their class ($30 value)

- Certificate for 3 hours of PD

 

Register: Email msu.econed@murraystate.edu OR go online at www.econ.org

 

 

 

 

 

 

Amy McDowell of Murray High School was the inaugural winner (2012-2013) of the Excellence In Economic Education Award as presented by MSU's Center for Economic Education (see basic application here).

 

  • Amy teaches courses at Murray High School that are filled with economic and financially literacy content, including Business Principles I & II, Accounting I & II and ECO 190, which is our “Consumer Economics” dual-credit course.
  • She consistently encourages learning beyond the textbook by bringing in guest speakers for her students, like area bankers and showing relevant, real-world videos and other content.
  • She also uses innovative learning techniques and methods, such as establishing The Tiger Bank, which is a student-run financial institution at Murray High School where students learn invaluable industry skills as well as teach other students about financial literacy.
  • Through her efforts, Amy has seen 68 students receive the KY Skills Standards Certification in Financial Services since the 2006/2007 school year. Many more of her students are also receiving dual-credit for taking her economic/financial literacy courses and many have gone on to work for area institutions utilizing the skills they have learned in her classes.